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Harvard College today announced a 4.75 percent increase in tuition for the 2006-2007 academic year, bringing overall tuition to $43,655 per student...
...Both tuition and aid will increase at a slightly faster rate than they did last year, when tuition was raised by 4.5 percent and scholarships were increased by 5.8 percent...
...announcement comes just over two years after University President Lawrence H. Summers unveiled the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI), which eliminated tuition payments for families making less than $40,000 a year and cut costs for families earning between $40,000 and $60,000. Nearly 360 current freshmen qualify for HFAI, up 22 percent from the previous year, according to figures released by the Office of Admissions last April...
...easily accessible to the greatest number of individuals and enterprises,” the report states. The report calls for countries to either follow Finland’s example of raising public funding to meet increased educational demand, or copy the U.S. model where universities rely heavily on private tuition. “The [European Union] universities are in crisis,” said Krupp Foundation professor of European studies, Peter A. Hall. He said that while enrollment has risen in many European universities, the increase in the student body has not been matched with higher funding...
...result, the program reaches fewer students in districts with low MCAS scores such as Cambridge, and it fails to take into account large scoring gaps across ethnic and economic groups, according to the Harvard study. Created in 2004 by Governor Mitt Romney, the Adams Scholarship Provides free tuition for four years at a Massachusetts public college for eligible students. The study’s author, Pennsylvania State University education professor Donald E. Heller, found that 25 percent of white students qualified for the scholarship in 2005, compared with only 8 percent of African-American students and 8 percent of Hispanics...